Show STANDARD OIL REPLIES TO SPECIAL MESSAGE NeW York May Standard on Oil company today issued to Its shareholders a statement in reply to the thc special mes message message sage recently sent to congress b by President President dent Roosevelt and the report on the coun t s oil industry b by Commissioner Gar Garfi fi ld of the bureau of corporations which accompanied it The statement is signed by C M Pratt and was Issued by order of the board of directors It de denies denies nies positively the charge that the Stan Standard Standard dard Oil company benefited b by secret rates for the transportation of its prod products The statement declares that the esti eRU estimate I mate that the company compan saves T O a year through the operation of certain freight rates could only have been beon ar an arrived I rived at by eor z g |